The Monday Strike has been 'officially' postponed until Thursday 16th.

http://www.radio.cz/en/news#1

That's the day I fly out. At least I'm staying near the airport that night

Just logged into this thread after exploring the Castle in more detail and grabbing dinner at U Mateje, which I recommend for anyone looking for Czech food (it's down the street from U Fleku). I'd like to hit the town some more, but now I have to pack and, out of a sense of duty, finish a bottle of wine before my early flight out.

We had a good group of folks and I want to say a big thanks to servus for putting together a quality program. Also, thanks again to everyone who helped me with my "lounge crawl."

Thank you !!!
 

Well, I'm back home! What I read so far here on FT, on FB or in PM's I got, most of you liked and enjoyed the weekend what makes me really happy. I also had a wonderful weekend and highly appreciate the opportunity to met all of you. If you have a FB account, please send me a friend request so I can keep track of you! Finally I would also like to say a big thank you to my Executive receptionist Lucie K. Have a safe trip home.

Servus

We'll see if my "public" links for FB albums really work since I'm unsearchable.

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Had a very good connection in Munich and landed in time in Stuttgart.

While flying I was looking back to a wonderful weekend at Prague. :)
Thank you very much, servus, for organizing such a good programm with tasty and typical restaurants, perfect sightseeing tours and the brunch at the lovely Café Imperial. You really did a good job ^.

I was happy meeting old friends and get to know new ones.
Hope seeing you again somewhere around while travelling.

I'm also safely home and would like to thank servus for organising the DO. It was great to see FT friends old and new.

I wish I could have stayed a few days longer. Any chance of making Prague DO a regular event on the FT calendar? :)

Thank you servus for organizing the DO! It was great to meet old and new friends, and to see Prague again! I hope those of you who are still there get home safely.

In hindsight, we should have had group pics taken on the upper deck during the boat cruise when the sun came back out. Woulda, shoulda, coulda. :(

Did you say Upperdeck? Thats me:D Too bad I missed the cruise. Heard it was great. Back home now and Servus, want to thank you for organising a wonderful event. Had a great time, was good seeing old friends and meeting new ones. Had great conversations, good food (gotta love them Czech dumplings:D) and a whole lotta beer ^. PRG is as beautiful as advertised.
Glad to hear the strike date got moved and hope everyone gets out without issue.
Hope to see the gang real soon at another Do.

I missed the final day of the Do, thanks to my daughter. She and a friend were flying AMS-TLV, connecting in PRG. They sat at the wrong gate and missed their connecting flight.

My daughter called me at midnight to ask what to do. I found out there were no empty rooms in my hotel and had the hotel make a reservation elsewhere. The closest hotel possible was about mile away,

Then I arranged for a taxi for them from the airport to the hotel, walked to the hotel, paid for their room, got on the internet and made reservations for them on El Al for the following night, walked back to my hotel, and finally got to sleep around 4 a.m.

At 7 a.m. I woke up, could not get back to sleep, and called theml. I told them to take a taxi with her luggage to my hotel, paid for it when it arrived, and at 11 am we took a walking/shopping tour of Prague. Neither of the girls had any money so both were my guests for both the shopping and lunch. We got back to my hotel at 5 pm, scoow joined us, and I took them all to dinner.

Then, at 7 pm, I arranged for a taxi to take them to the airport, paid for it, and finally managed to get some sleep.

Funny thing is, when I typed that the first time I did as one word because of you! ;)

This is my first breakfast alone. I'm missing my lounge buddies!

So I didn't have to worry anyway....

Not that it matters. I had a rather restless night train ride from Prague to Heidelberg, mainly due to a full 6 bunks in our sleeper cabin and two very loud snorers in it. (One of them even had the nerve to take the wrong bunk, fold up the centre bunk when it was needed later and take an extra pillow!)

Our train was 70 minutes late and I missed my original connection from Heidelberg to Frankfurt am Main, but I just caught the next train and that was OK. Unfortunately, once at Frankfurt am Main Hbf, the DB staff wouldn't let me catch an earlier train to Aachen (or Cologne) without paying an exorbitance.

So I am in Frankfurt city in a Starbucks sucking up free wifi (in lots of 2 hours at a time) until I have to catch my original train at 1517h. Apart from being in need of a shower, a little rest and a shave, I'm doing alright.


Anyway, back on topic.... once again, big thanks to servus for the weekend in PRG. The city was just as wonderful as I remembered it from my last visit in 2009, and to experience it with the company of others was excellent.

To everyone still going home or travelling, safe travels and hope to see you again soon some time around the world!

Just to continue the series of issues of this weekend; Qantas suspended flights to from MEL last night due to the Chilean Volcano eruption. Saturdays QF10 was diverterd to SYD. :eek:

They have resumed (and the QF10 finally arrived in MEL) but QF flights to/from Tasmania/New Zealand are still suspended.

This can all change, so we have booked a refundable train fare from Albury (ABX) to Melbourne. If we end up in SYD with flights to MEL again suspended, we'll get Qantas to fly us to ABX to catch the train. (Trains/Buses from Sydney left too early or too late or were non-refundable)http://www.australianfrequentflyer.c...on_neutral.gif

http://www.bom.gov.au/info/vaac/cordon_caulle.shtml

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDD65290.shtml

Of course, until six weeks ago, there was always the chance of BA flights to/from PRG being disrupted by IA.

What kind of a meal did you get on the PRG-BSL flight? I see it was a Swiss European RJ100 rather than a Contact Air F100, but I was the only one (out of 7 C pax) on PRG-ZRH to get a standard LX snack tray and everyone else had a meal in a blue plastic box. I'm just curious.